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What do you think ? Fair ? Given the circumstances ?

An Ohio father made his daughter walk to school for a few days as a punishment after she'd been banned from using the bus due to her bullying another student.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-46471438
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That’s absolutely fair. If she can’t ride the bus without bothering other kids, she doesn’t deserve the chance to ride. Of course, I’d also want to know [b]why[/b] she feels the need to be a bully, because it’s unlikely that [b]that[/b] stops once she gets to school. 😒
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard And given that bullying is often the end result of similar experience, makes you wonder if dad, by his action, demonstrated the same.
@Picklebobble2 How would you have handled it ?
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard I'd have walked with her.
That way she not only learns the value of a ride to and from school but she'll know that her parents had to put THEMSELVES out as well as a result of her behaviour !
@Picklebobble2 I dunno, PickleB. I concede to your actual experience, but I’m not sure how showing a bully that actions can have unpleasant consequences is also bullying. And I do know one thing—for some kids, guilting them [b]won’t[/b] work. Bullies often lack empathy—so having also inconvenienced their parents may not even register. 🤔
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard If a father is prepared to travel in comfort and safety whilst ensuring his daughter is possibly more at risk from traffic, that makes me wonder if dad is more the bully.
Children learn from what they're shown.
Does she now behave herself having learned the lesson. Or did the exercise just make her feel humiliated by her father in public ?
@Picklebobble2 Having to walk to school isn’t being humiliated. Being walked to school by one’s [b]parent[/b] would’ve been—at least from [b]my[/b] memory of being a kid. That’s when it’s clear to everyone you’re being punished.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard Not what happened in this case though, is it.
Father specifically made his daughter walk in front of him as he was driving.
That's like walking you child to school withe dad wearing a loud T-shirt saying "[b]HAVING TO WALK THIS IDIOT HOME BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T BEHAVE ON THE BUS ![/b]
@Picklebobble2 Wonder if it curbed her bullying, when she was humiliating other children ? I don’t have much patience when it comes to bullies.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard My point is, if she [b]is[/b] bullying other kids, you can [b]see[/b] where she gets it from.
@Picklebobble2 I don’t see being held responsible for one’s actions as being bullied. And I was actually bullied as a child by other kids. Having to walk to school, rather than take the bus—poor thing. I also saw folks who [b]really[/b] bullied and humiliated their children—they came down to school and beat their kids during recess, or allowed the nuns to paddle them—sometimes in front of class. That’s the sort of thing that I could see actually scarring someone for life.
Picklebobble2 · 56-60, M
@bijouxbroussard Well that's Catholic education. An 'acceptable form of child abuse'.
Don't think i've met a Catholic educated person yet who doesn't carry the scars of that.

Yet the clamour from those abused; their parents; Board of education officials; the police; childcare advocates; THE LAW IN GENERAL, has been noticeably absent for the last 100 years !